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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-08-12
Cheating the Law.

A family recently moved into a
central Dakota county from the
east. Three or four mornings after
lumber wagon drove up and a
man got out and raped at the
door. The woman appeared and
the man said:
Good mornin', ma'am, 1 hope
you hain't fished him out yet?"
"What is it, sir?"
Il say 1 hope everything re-
mains just as it was-that's the
law in cases Of this kind. you
know"
Il don't understand you"
II can't see why you don't-you
must know what's happened an
what the law requires in such cas-
es. This is the jury out'n the wag-
on an I'm coroner-don't delay us
cause we're all anxious to earn
our fees an git back an git in a
days work harvestin' '-grain's
powerful ripe ma a'am."
''There hasn't been any death
hero, sir"
"There haint? Didn't yer hus-
band fall down the well?"
"No, sir!"
"Dld't he git wanderin' round
in the night an tumble down an
old well into four feet of water an
drown an break his neck both at
the same time?"
"No, sir, he didn't. He's out IN
the field at work now. One of our
calves FELL down an old we'll last
night"
"D'ys hear that, boys?-that's S
how the blame yarn got started
Madam, tell yer husband to be
very keerful in the future, if we
come again we shall hold the in
quest whether he is dead or notp'
Then as he turned and climbed in
the wagon he added:
"Bill, jes' keep that verdick ye
writ up, the burned fool may drop
down that we'll yet!'-Dakota
Bell"
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Lancaster Correspondence.

Ed. GRpHIC: Your correspon-
dent had the pleasure of listening
to Pres. Blanton's lecture on the
"Fitz Humbug Family" at the
Christian church last evening.
After being introduced to large
and appreciative audience by
Lawyer Fogle, Prof. Blanton
spoke for few minutes, upon the
work of the Normal at Kirksville,
and then entered upon the lecture,
which, Notwithstanding the poor
acoustic properties of the room,
was distinctly heard. 1t was re-
ceived with great approval, and
beginning upon a humorous strain
the lecturer gradually made his
applications and impressed his
lessons with great clearness. 1t
is said that the Smiths are a nu-
merous family; but the "Fitz-
Humbugs" far outnumber that i'll
ustrious line from the immortal
Captain Jofn, of jamestown fame.
The "Fitz Humbugs" are found
every where. After speaking for
some time of the various "fitz
Humbugers and Humbugees' the
speaker settled down to hard prac-
tical lessons Of life, especially, les
sons for the teacher, and closed
mis- evenings talk with a beautiful
quotation from the pen
Of Mrs. E. B. Browning. Every
body went home well pleased and
consider Prof. Blanton a fine
speaker and most cultured gentle
man.
The Normal Institute conducted
by E. d. Luckey, of Kirksville,
closed its five days session here
on Friday, and the least that can
be said is, that the Institute has
been a decided success. There
were thirty teachers in attendance
and felt at the close well repaid
for their time and money. This
Institute is the first one held here
for many years and the beginning
made this year, will grow into a
big gathering next year. All the
teachers feel that something must
be done or they will drop behind
their brothers and sisters of other
counties. Prof. e. ID. Luckey and
County Commissioner Fugate
have done good work here this
summer, and may their efforts sue
ceed. Ian. Con.
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And Justice Came at Last.

The scaffold stands in the chill
ing dawn, with its creaking beams
and its ghastly freight, and a hu-
man form swings on, swings ON,
while the gibbet groans at its
swaying weight. The vultures
flock from the shores of night and
hungry, perch on the swaying
form, and the children gather in
wild alright, by this fearful scene
in the summer storm. A placard
see on the dead mans breast, with
a legend penned by a brutal hand
that would dishonor the dead
ones rest, and shame his name in
his native land. And pilgrim
halts by the scaffold high and
reads the card on the dead ones
form, which says: Like this may
all people die, who ask if the
weather isn't warm .''-Atchisor
Globe.
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Lawful Fence.

The law defining a lawful fence
as amended by the last session of
the legislature:
Section 5652 [ Amended All
hedges shall be at least four feet
high, and all fences composed of
posts and rails, posts and pailings.
posts and wire, posts and boards,
OF palisades, shall be at least four
and one-half feet high, with posts
set firmly in the ground not more
than eight feet apart, and with
rails. pailings, wire, boards or
palisades securely fastened thereto
and placed at a proper distance
apart, so as to resist horses, cattle,
swine and like stock; those COM
posed of turf shall be at least four
feet high, and with bitches on
either side, at least three feet wide
at the top and three feet deep;
and what is known as worm fence
shall be at least five feet high to
the top of the rider, or if not rid
cred shall be five feet to the top
rail or poles, or stakes; those COM
posed of stone or brick shall be at
least four and one-half feet high:
provided, that in counties in this
state in which swine is restrained
from running at large, all fences
built of posts set firmly in the
ground not more than sixteen feet
apart and three barbed wires tense
ly stretched aid securely fasten-
ed thereto, and the upper wire
being substantially four feet from
the ground, and the two remain,
ing wires placed at proper distance
below to resist horses cattle and like
stock, and all fences built of posts
and rails, or post and Stats, with
posts set firmly in the ground, noi
more than ten feet apart, and with
three rails or stats securely fasten-
ed thereto, and the upper rail or
slat Being placed substantially
four and one-half feet from the
ground, and the two remaining
rails or Stats each pannel being
placed at proper distances below
or resist horses, cattle and like
stock, and all fences built of boards
and posts, with posts set firmly in
the ground, not more than eight
feet apart, and boards substantial
ly one inch thick and six inches
wide, securely fastened thereto,
and the upper board being at least
four and one-half feet high, and
the remaining board placed at
proper distances below to resist
horses, cattle and like stock, shall
be deemed and held to be good
and lawful fence: provided, that
nothing contained in this section
shall be so construed as to relieve
any railroad company from the
obligations of fencing the right of
way of said company against hogs,
sheep, cattle, horses and like
stock.
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Order of Publication in Vacation

Order of Publication in Vacation.
In the circuit court OF Adair county, Mis-
souri,, Oct term, lsS7.
The state of Missouri at the relation andto
the use of Myron +. StrOck, collector of the
revenue for the county of Adair, state,of Mis-
souri,, plaintiff against the unknown heirs
of Nelson Grogan, defendant.
5520-PETITION FOR TAXES.
Now.on this,3rd day of August l-s7, comes
fore the clerk of the circuit court of the county
of Adair and state of Missouri, and files his pc
tition in the above entitled cause, alleging
samong other things that the defendants the
unknown heirs of Nelson GrOgan are to him un
known and their names cannot be inserted in
this petition so that the ordinary process
Of tforo law avd n-ean cannot IT.. be served upon
by. publication. Wherefore it is ordered by
said clerk in vacation that publication be ID aue
notifying said defendant that an action has
been commenced against them by petitiCl, In
the circuit court of Adair county, Missouri the
object and general nature ofwhich is to obtain
q Judgment against said defendants fol til,
sum of thirty II 32-lOO dollars, aggIt gate
lSs0, ISL, 1852, lss3, ls4 lSsI, and levied upon
and against the real estate hereinafter
described, owned BY Tia, defendants
Said taxes due and delinqUen, On
said land, with interest thereon as provided b,
law, together with commission, attorney
fees and costs of said proceedings. Also 10
have said judgment declared lien in fayol =,
the state of Missouri, on the following desIib-
ed lands, lying and being situate in the county
of Adair and state OF Missouri, to-wit:
Forty acres, the south west of southeast of
section thirty-fivel35l, township sixly-two [62l
range sixteen tl6.l
And also to enforce said lion and to obtain q
decree for the sale of said real estate, or 30
much thereof as may be necessary, to satisty
said Judgment, interest, commission, fees and
cost.
And unlcss yon the untnovu beirs of
Nelson Grogan, the said defendant be and
appeal at the next regular term of the Circuit
court of Adair county, Missouri, to be begLL
and held at the court house in Kirksyille o.
the 2nd Monday in Oct. 1ss7, and answer
or plead to said petition on or before the skin
day of said term of court, SHOULD the term su
long continue, and if not then before the end OF
the term), the same will be taken as confessed
and judgment rendered as asked for in plain
tif's petition. 1t is further ordered th6t a
copy of this order be published in the Weekly
Graphic, weekly newspaper published in
said Adair county, for four weeks successfully
the last insertion to be at least four weeks be-
fore the commencement of the next term of
this court. 4 true copy. Attest,
J.B. DoDsoN, Clerk.
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For SALE.-Fsrm of 16O acres

situated within little over an hours drive
the beautiful educational city Of Kirksville,
MO-, l5O acres fenced in convenient fields;
in timber pssnrs ms Toea
balance rail and board fence. Frame house
with six rooms, plenty Of stock water. . living
stream runs through one end Of farm; plenty
Of nearly all kinds of fruit; beautiful groves
around the house, good school within 20 rods
of the farm: churches In sight. No. settle
ment; will be sold at sacridce and on liberal
terms II called for soon. Will take part pay In
3own property. Address Graphic oface.
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Several days ago the Gate City
made reference to the fact that
eggs at Pond & Co.'S were being
hatched by the heat. The same
process is going on in Chicago, a
paper of which city says: "After
it is all over and the smoke OF
battle has cleard away, as they
say in post-election times, it be-
comes more and more certain that
, last week was the hottest on record.
The traditional "whooper" that
the weather was hot enough to
cook eggs in the sun was very
near realized on South Water
street. The air was so hot that
chickens were Matched out in eggs
in crates put in the shadiest and
coolest parts of the store. At T.
Woods store, at 137 South Water
street, Billy Kreuzer was going
to get some eggs for the ''candler'
to work on, and when he came to
the consignment of five cases of
eggs from Rose, Ill, he heard a
peculiar squealing noise in the
lowest tier. "There's mice in
there" he said. but 10! when he
took off the cover of the bottom
layer, fifteen young chickens just
boiled out. Two more had pipped
out, but the air was not warm
enough to dry them off and they
died. Mr.. Wood distributed them
among some of the clerks, keeping
two himself. One of them is dead,
but the rest are as clipper as if
they had a regulation mamma to
coodle them and cluck over them.
One more chicken made its debut
from the same lot yesterday. AS
they all came from the same lot of
three dozen and had only been in
the store a few days Mr.. Woods
thinks they had been set on and
had got we'll ON to maturity
before they were shipped. Thsn
the warm air finished the job.
There are other cases on the street,
but as this is the largest number
Mr.. Woods thinks he is entitle
to the prize.-Keokuk Gate City.
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Queen City Items.

After a drouth lasting a month
we had two light rains last week,
which served to lay the dust, but
was not sufficient to benefit the
corn or fill the wells.
There is a great deal of sickness
especially among the children in
several families, all the members
being sick at the same time.
Mrs. Ed. Dufer has been very
sick for some time.
Mrs. Martha Shipman died
Aug. 7th, of fux.
Mrs. Bertha Kruer of st. Louis,
is visiting friends and relatives in
this place.
Several of our young people at
tended the teachers institute held
at Lancaster last week.
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Wide Awake for August.

The notable features OF the Au-
gust Wide Awake are the first of q
series Of sketches of Old Concord
and paper on summer sports,
both illustrated.
The village where the first bat
tie of the Revolution was fought
has been written and pictured and
guide-booked until the subject is
hackeneyed: but nothing is fresh
er than unexpected news OF a
sleepy old relic. Margaret Sidney,
the writer, lives in "Wayside," the
home of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
next door to the Alcotts', mile
from Concord bfidge, toward Lex
ington. What an inspiration! But
she Sights the expectation of pa
triotic eloquence, driver about in
her easy phaeton, takes a friend
along to hear the gossip of those
who live in the air of hundred
years ago. And you who read
is the friend in the phaeton.
Summer Sports is by Elbridge
S. Brooks (late of the st. Nicholas
staff }, who shines in vacation as
well as in his more accustomed
work. He gets into half dozen
pages practical clues to croquet,
bowls, hare and hounds, canoeing,
tennis, bad minton, quoits, ball-in
the hole, or nine holes, and stop
with base ball, with bare mention
of boating, fishing, swimming,
camping, trapping, bicycling, pho
Biography.
Charles Egbert Craddock goes
on a coon hunt and trees pantI Ell
in the "Story of Keedon Bluffs" =
her second young folks story
(both of them written for Wide
Awake). There are long stories
by Catherwood, Davis, Champuey,
Hopkins; short ones by Mitchell,
Hart; poems, sketches, skits, bio
graphhies, peeps at the Zoo.
All through all, the serious pur-
pose of entertainment and educa.
ton both of the higher sort made
winning and popular.
Wide Awake $40 a year-a
sample copy free for five cents. D
Lothrop & Company, Boston.
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Renews Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson
Clay Co.. Iowa, tells the following
remarkable story, the truth o.
which is youched for By the res
idents of the town: 81 am I3yeslS,
old, have been troubled with hlu
ney complaint and lameness 10.
many years; could not dress nJ J,
self with out help. Now l ~
free from all pain and soreness
and am able to do all my osn
housework, I owe my thanAs
Electric Bitters for having renes, ,s
my youth, and removed eomplessgl al.
ali disease and pain" Try oos
tie, soc. and 81. at j. g. Jam''oD
Drug Store.
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KIRKsvILLE, Mo-, Aug. 4, 'S7.

Mr.. EDITOR: In the card over
the signature of Mr.. W. I. Baird,
in the Democrat of last week, an
effort seems to have been made to
divert public attention from the
real issue by citing various sec
tons of the statute against bribery
thereby insinuatlng that we had
been guilty of that grave offence,
by attempting to bribe the Normal
school regents on June Goth.
If we are guilty of bribery we
certainly should be punished, and
we would greatly prefer that if
Mr.. Baird or his legal adviser in
this matter has any charge to
make against us, that they make
it direct or with hold further in
sinuatious.
Let them file their complaint
and have US arrested at once. We
are ready for trial and we will not
plead ignorance of the law either.
| We defy them to show that there
was any moral turpitude involved
in our proposition. The truth is,
all this hue and cry about bribery
has been raised to cover up the
favoritism shown to Mr.. Baird by
rejecting our bid of 5000 per an
mum for the benefit of the School,
and appointing him treasurer,
thereby giving him the benefit of
it without even an application.
Why cite the law against bri-
berry? 1t would be just as appli-
cable for US to cite them to the
law against slander, arson, or
knowingly advising one to vote who
was disqualified.
AS to the letter of Attorney
General Boone, he, for some rea-
son unknown to US, failed to an
swer the main and important
qustion we asked him, and that
was, could our proposition in any
way be considered bribe. He
only says:
81 am of the opinion that the
proposition is illegal and that any
contract or agreement based on it
would be null and void. The
Board of Regents IN my opinion
have no authority to accept or en-
ter into any such arrangement"
But he did not say that we were
guilty of bribery. We did not
suppose that there was any law by
which we could compel the Re
gents to accept our proposition,
unless they wished to, and it may
be true that at law they could not
have enforced such a contract
against us; but we are well salts
fed that they had ne fears but
what we would pay the 5000 per
annum, if I'VE agreed to, Mr.. Baird
says he never applied for the
place at all, at any price, and never
thought of offering to do the work
for nothing.
That, we have no doubt is true,
for it would have been entirely un-
necessary for him to do so, as he
"stood in" with the ring manage
ment, of a part of the Regents, not
all Of them VIC are glad to know.
He only got three votes out of
seven, but it was a majority Of the
five present. If all the Regents
had been present, the vote might
have been quite different.
r. NJ. RINGo.
SAMUEL REED.
EDWIN DARRow.
HENRY ECKEBT.
II NJ u.--r~--ra
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Take Warning.

For coughs and colds give Hol-
land Cough Cure. Ifyour child
has Group or whooping cough give
Fulkerson's Holland Cough Cure.
If you have bad cold take Full
kerson's Holland Cough Cure. In
many cases it saves you a large
doctors bill and a severe spell OF
sickness. J. G. Jamison is Agent
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n to be made Cut this outand
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will start you; capital needed. This IL one
of the genuine. important chances Of . life
time. Those who are ambitious and enter
prising will not delay. Grand outdt free.
ddress True i Co., Augusta Maine.
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The use of vegetables and fruits
will promote health, gives a zest
to the daily meals, and tighten the
cares of the wife in providing pal
atable food for the men-folks and
children.
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KIRKSVILLE MARKETS.

KIRKSVILLE MARKETS.
EGGS C per doz
BUTTER-10
OLD HENS-4c per lb.
FEATHERS-35c
OATS-16
HAY-s5.OO to 7.5O
HOGS-3.50 to $50
COWS & HEIFERS- Fat 2sE
BEESWAX-l -lSc
TALLOW-2t to Sc
LARD-6 toS C
HORSES-s9O to S1lO
DRY COWS-14 to2.
CORN-35c to 40
WHEAT-6Oc
RYE-35c
POTATOES-30
MILK COWS & CALVES go
to $50
BOOSTERS -s1.2O per doz
STEERS Common 2 to 2;
good light q to 800; good
heavy 81 to 400
SHEEP $1,50 to $3.50
HIDES-green n to 6. dry. 8 to ~ ~
TIMOTHY SEED-$l.O to 2W
ONIONS-1.25 per busheL
BRAN-65, 75c per hund.
SHORTS-9Oc per hund.
MIXED FEED-80c per hun
YOUNG CHICKENS-1.5O
CABBAGE-5 cts. per head.
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For SALE-Farm of 130 acres 81
miles west OF Kirksville; so acres in cultivation
nearly all good second bottom land, balance
in timber; house and orchard; lumber OF
ground tor new house; p acres Of fine corn
and ten acres of millet will be sold with plac,
plenty OF good water: place in good repair. A
dress GRAPHIC OFFI&E
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FoR SAIE-Fine farm Of 12O acres
one half mile from corporation and from
sSate Normal School house, good orchard,
imall fruit, abundance OF " ster etc., 50 acres
n cultivation. 40 acres in pasture and tim
Der. An excellent home at bargain. Ad-
dress this Office.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her css.ori.
When she was Child, she cried for Castona
When she became Miss, she clung to CASTOR.
Whsn shs had Children. abe gave them Cas,or,.
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FoR SALE-Farm of 118 acres
within one mile Of Kirksville. Good room
house, two halls, two room cellar, closets and
pantries. Good farm, orchard of two hun
dred trees, small fruit, 100 acres in cultiva-
hon, IL acres in good pasture. Address this
1fice.
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For SALE--Farm of 72 acres, near
suburbs of town, good new house, rooms
and cellar, good orchard of four to five hun
dred trees, barn, three wells. 35 acres in cul-
tivatlon, balance pasture, email fruit. A bar
gain. Address this office.
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In the case of a sprain, twenty
minutes soaking in water as hot
as can be borne will afford perman-
ent relief.
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For SALE-A fine farm of 200
acres, all enclosed, two miles from Kirksville.
abundance of small fruit, constant supply or
never failing water; good house Of IL 70 oms,
with cellar, living well. barn 40 n square
reason Tor selling, owner wants to quit farm
ing. A bargain. Address this office
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]. B. DoDsoN, CLERK.

Oilcloth can be frightened after
washing, by rubbing hard with a
flannel moistened with kerosene.